This past weekend, Aaron Sorkin, writer of the West Wing and some short-lived Mathew Perry slop, broke his nose while writing. Apparently, he was reciting dialogue into a mirror and headbutted the glass.

I had a teacher, Wayne Ude, that disputed the notion that a writer must suffer to be any good. He figured that you should just put your hand on a …

Ran across a web site, terrible minds, that has a cool logo and a weekly fiction contest that is really a clever way to build links to his site for search engine optimization. So I went ahead and wrote some flash fiction for the July Fourth contest.

It Had Been a Fine Fourth of July

It had been a fine Fourth of July. We went to see fireworks, of course, my wife and my son—my …

Well, Weiner exited much quicker than I expected. I thought he would be around for a while longer. A week ago, I came up with 10 political double entendre headlines. With Weiner gone, I guess I should roll out these runner ups. Admittedly, these are a bit weaker than the first batch, and might be better described as double entendre-like puns.

It doesn’t look like Congressman Anthony Weiner will be going anywhere, ensuring more amusing and tiresome weeks of double entendre-based wiener jokes. Is Weiner’s wiener ironic enough for an Alanis Morrisette song? I’m not sure.

Aside from the obvious Dicks and Peters in Congress, what other amusing double entendre-based news headlines may out Weiner’s Wiener in the near future? What about former Senator, now presidential hopeful, Santorum …

It’s been a long ten months. Hadn’t blogged in a while, because things got tough around August 2010. Unemployment, institutionalized offspring, home underwater, finances in the crapper, depression, anxiety disorders, legal trouble. I was sure that things couldn’t get worse.

In September, I was offered a new job at a salary well beyond what I had made in any …

According to Google Analytics, about 70% of the visitors to the Unpublished Guy Blog are new. I like a Title with three 7s, however, so I am going to say that 77% of visitors to my blog are new. They’re my site statistics, I’ll fudge them a little bit if it suits me. For example, you might find it hard to believe, but I get 11 …

Like a virtual particle, sometimes the virtual post exists; sometimes, it doesn’t.

I’ve always thought that virtual particles explained why electrons appear to zig-zag through the screen slits in the classic experiment. I’m probably wrong, because I’m a self-taught physicist with a …

As an underemployed fellow who loves his Starbucks coffee, I have developed the fine art of Starbucks refills. With limited funds, it is important to keep costs down. I can get quite a bit more coffee at $0.53 a cup, rather than $2.12. I am not sure about Starbuck’s policy regarding …